{"id":683740,"date":"2026-07-10T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683740\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:09:10","slug":"neco-williams-transfer-news-newcastle-and-man-utd-interested-in-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683740\/","title":{"rendered":"Neco Williams transfer news: Newcastle and Man Utd interested in defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottingham Forest defender Neco Williams is attracting interest from several Premier League clubs, with Newcastle United among those interested in the Wales international.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams is in talks over a new deal at the City Ground, but a number of Forest&#8217;s top-flight rivals are keen on the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood Newcastle and Manchester United are among the clubs to have registered interest in Williams while talks over a new contract with Forest continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest remain confident that Williams will agree to stay with them, but interest in the full-back does create a potential obstacle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams has three years to run on his current deal and Forest want to reward him with an improved contract after his impressive displays last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams joined Forest from Liverpool in July 2022 for a fee of \u00a312m and has made over 150 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest defender Neco Williams is attracting interest from several Premier League clubs, with Newcastle United among those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-683740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}